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A comment on Ask HN: What will happen when Windows is open sourced?.

Re:Ask HN: What will happen when Windows is open sourced? by CyberFonic on Friday October 05, 2018 @07:11AM (#18147174)
MSDOS v2.0 is about 52,000 lines of assembler code.

Windows is in the order of 40,000,000 lines of mostly C++ code.

It is very unlikely that MS would release intellectual property that is approx 3000 times the size and possibly a several million times the value of MSDOS.

Even assuming that they did, it will take developers a long time to come up to speed with understanding the code base sufficiently to make useful changes. In the meantime MS won't be standing still.

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Re:Ask HN: What will happen when Windows is open sourced? by anticensor on Friday October 05, 2018 @07:54AM (#18147375)
There are ReactOS developers who do understand Windows. They would be happy with increased user base and community support.
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